Ajay Gudavarthy

Areas of interest

Indian politics, political philosophy, contemporary Marxist theory, and democratic theory.

Education

• Phd, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• MPhil, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• MA, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• BA (Honours), Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi

Biography

Ajay Gudavarthy is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU, and his areas of interest include political theory, contemporary political movements, civil society and democracy, post-colonial theory, and populism. Prior to teaching at JNU, he also taught at the National Law School, Bangalore, from 2003 to 2006, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Modern South Asian Studies, Tubingen University, Germany, in 2015. His most recent books: "India after Modi: Populism and the Right" (Bloomsbury, 2018) and (ed) "Secular Sectarianism: Limits of Subaltern Politics" (Sage, 2019). He is currently working on "Democracy and Revolutionary Violence," which will be published by Sage, and writes regularly for various News Dailies including The Hindu, Telegraph, The Wire, and Newsclick.